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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Threads is garbage. You get one page of the people you subscribed to and then the next one is random promoted accounts that might be popular or whatever. The algorithm has more of a chokehold than it does even on Twitter. They can inflate their numbers by saying everyone with an Instagram account has Threads, but I’m not so sure people are actually using it.

    Whatever one might say of BlueSky, it shows me the posts of the people I chose to follow, which is the whole point. Mastodon would be better in principle, but most people I follow don’t use it so it doesn’t do much for me.



  • I’m saying it does take me significantly more than 5 minutes, and that’s not even counting getting around the map or Daily Commissions or regular events that also take time, which one might want to do if they want more characters and weapons without paying.

    I’m also saying that to have your characters so optimized that it only takes you 5 minutes now, it means you likely grinded much more than 5 minutes a day for a long time, because fast clear times aren’t trivial to get, and in this game skilfull play doesn’t make up for raw stat numbers as far as clear time goes.

    I am saying that solely counting daily grind, my playtime has surpassed hundreds of hours, and this is not hyperbole. I have played for more than a year, so over time even short daily playtime can ammount to that, but lets not downplay how many times you need to run the same XP Leylines, the same Talent Book Domains, the same Artifact Domains, the same Bosses over and over to gather materials to get new characters up to speed with the rest of your team, meaning, usable in gameplay.

    God, if I didn’t like the game’s story so much I’d probably have dropped already from how repetitive and tiresome the grind gets. Like many live service games, it’s not even like this is earned naturally by playing however you want, no, you need to go out of your way to grind the same repetitive challenges. Maybe you know games that are even more griindy and tiresome… but I wouldn’t exactly say that this means Genshin is free from grind. Not at all.





  • Sonic Adventure 2 is great but it hurts me every time someone says how good Sonic Heroes was. Sonic Heroes was the most paper-thin every character has been in the 3D era. They just took a couple stereotypical quotes for each character and called it a day. The scant little they did with Shadow was only the barest setup for Shadow the Hedgehog.

    Shadow the Hedgehog was overly edgy but at least they tried to do some character exploration and what-ifs. I got some chuckles from how over the top the Dark paths went but some routes and the True ending seemed to fit his actual character just fine.

    Character-wise I’d say Sonic Battle was one of the best entries, but the gameplay had nothing to do with anything Sonic.




  • Figuring out decks can be a lot of work but some cards are pretty much always useful. Professor’s Research can save you from a bad hand and Ultra Balls can get you evolutions if they aren’t showing up. For mixed color decks you might want Energy Search or maybe some variety of Rainbow Energy cards (but you can only have up to 4 of each special energy).


  • That’s right. It’s preferable to go for 10-15 pokémon, 30-40 trainer and supporters, and 10-15 energies. As long as you can guarantee a basic pokémon in your starting hand, many trainer cards let you get the other basics and evolutions that you need. 15/30/15 is a more casual friendly mix, the tighter ones are used by people with optimized strategies.

    It’s also good to have 4 copies of whatever basic pokémon you want to focus on, as well as anything else that’s necessary for your main strategy.

    I play it casually but I held myself against the utterly savage folks on the TCG app’s ranked mode to have some idea of the basics.